Stuffed courgettes from Plenty More (page 117) by Yotam Ottolenghi

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    This recipe is on p.105 in the US edition.

  • Ganga108 on December 28, 2021

    It is interesting that Ottolenghi has several different cooking times for this recipe in books and on the internet. The cooking time varies from 2 hours down to 40 mins. I found that when cooking for 2 hours, the zucchini was overcooked and the rice just a tad undercooked, even after all that time on very low heat. After all, it is being steamed rather than boiled as is usual. Our recommendation is that the rice should be par-cooked before using in the stuffing, and that the cooking time is then reduced to 40 – 60 mins so that the rice is really soft. As it is, the recipe did not work for us. It is a rare Ottolenghi fail in our kitchen - we have cooked more than 250 of his recipes and they have been consistently excellent.

  • Tealismyname on March 08, 2016

    I found it a bit difficult to scoop out the courgettes but overall it was delicious. I felt my rice needed to cook for a bit longer but the flavours were really delicious. It really isn't a pretty recipe as mentioned in the book. The yogurt sauce was fantastic!

  • Rutabaga on September 20, 2015

    I won't rate this one as I overcooked the zucchini and don't feel qualified to judge. After cooking them for roughly 45 minutes, I ended up needing to leave the house, and simply turned off the store and let them zucchini sit. Hours later, I came home to find the rice had swollen to the point of sogginess, and the zucchini were quite waterlogged. Except for some of the rice that had spilled over into the cooking liquid, they were still edible, just not especially tasty (although the yogurt sauce really is a good addition). I had added extra water to the pan to help ensure everything would cook thoroughly, but in retrospect I think I added too much. This probably contributed to the sogginess, too.

  • amandashestokes on August 12, 2015

    Really delicious! The wall of my zucchini broke during cooking, so some of the rice exploded out and most of the sauce absorbed, but it was delicious anyway. I forgot to make the yogurt sauce, but next I'll be sure to because I'm that additional layer of flavor would knock it out of the park. Full disclosure, I used a GIANT zucchini from a co-worker's garden and cut it in half for this. So, the exploding rice was my fault because I had to craft an end to the zucchini half our of a weak seed wall.

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